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The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

The delegates of the ''Young Dem
ocracy" of Cecil county IN the last
Democratic State Convention voted for
the platform adopted by that conven-
ton, by which the Democratic party OF
the State, was virtually pledged to the
new Constitutional Convention scheme
Do the other leaders of the "Young
Democracy repudiate the action of
their delegates or noto
Will Captain Jefferson, and William
Benjamin, and Henry ID. Keen inform
the people of Cecil county. whether
they approve or reject the platform of
the Democratic State Convention, and
whether they endorse or condemn the
action of the Cecil delegates to that
convention?
If they approve and endorse the
platform and action named, will the
gentlemen mentioned explain, on what
grounds they justify the imposition of
a new debt of 100000 on the tax
payers of the State?
Will they show US how that attitude
commends them as proper men for the
position of County Commissioners?
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

The latest petty trick by which
the crafty advocates of a Constllu-
tional Convention hope to force that
measure upon the taxpayers of the
State is the use of two ballot boxes
at each polling place in the State,
one to receive the ballots for state
and county officers, the other those
on the new Constitution issue.
The law really requires as hereto
fore but one ticket which contains
the names of state and county Off
GERS, with the words for" OF
against Constitutional Conven,
ton printed at the bottom of it
which the voter grasses Just as he de
sires to vote. In Washington county
in this State the Democratic County
Convention declared against" {
convention, and directed that al
tickets for their candidates should
have printed on them against {
Constitutional Convention.
The object in suggesting two
tickets, was that the Ring voter:
throughout the State would e care
fully instructed to vote "for" a con
vention, while many votes against il
would be lost, by having both word:
on them, the voter emitting care
lessly to make the erasure. From
present indications the two ballot
box scheme will not succeed.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22
THERE'S EEASoNING FOR YoU.


Our Co:cmporary the Cc0I Demo-
0dL, got off recently what might
be appropriately termed a ''broth"
OF an argument, intended to con-
vince his readers, that his party
should be continued in power in the
county. 1t WAS substantially this
even granting that the financial man
aYcment OF the Democratic party in
Cecil county had been eXtravagant
in the past which is the worst charged
against it, for this very reason it
would have every motive to be eco
nomiCal in the future. Now this is
brilliant idea, and quite in keeping
with many others which Mr.. Crook
shanks' readers chase so unsucCess-
fully up and down his columns,
lighted by those binding displays of
linguistic pyrotechnics, those tor
mcnting intellectual Wi!l-o' the-wisps,
in which our cotcmporary is wont
to indulge. Gastronomically speak
ing the idea may be interpreted as
meaning, that a tull stomach needs
no more mush, OF that the fellow
who has tilched his full, Il, ed fitch
no fuller. The notion seems akin to
that said to have been put in practice
oNcr, by cranky railroad supcrlnten-
dent, in the case of a conductor of an
opposition line, who had applied to
him for positi N.
GLOW long have you been
with the other lineo
-4.-Tcn years.
O.-How many houses do you
own?
-4.-Ten.
Q.-How many horsese
H. en-.
O.-Iow many thousands in dia-
monds?
4 Ten.
You're Just the man | want said
this Socratian Reasontr, you're al
ready supplied with the necessaries
of life, and my company will be
spared the expense OF furnishing
them for you.
Whether the rule be a safe one or
not to follow either in business or
politics, we leave our readers to
Judge. AT any rate our contemporary
teaches it. 1t is quite as practical
as his doctrines generally are.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

The Cecil Democrat makes a won
derful blow, because under Democratic
management in this county we have
succeeded ir getting small mad house,
and patched up Court House,-which
is perfect tinder box and will burn
down in an hour, if the cornice of the
adjoining store house ever is aaame,
and only have county Indebtedness
of $1,000 to show for it and food ac-
count
Now in Washington county under
Republican management, the County
Commissioners have built magnificent
almshouse costing more money than
our two buildings combined, and did it
too, zoithoM adding one cent TO the
tax ley or b0170z1ing dollar.
The moral of this is, that 1t would
pay to have a good Republican Board
of County Commissioners in Cecil
county,
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN
BALTIMORE.
THE MARYLAND UPRISING.


From III, N,ir lutk HOrId.
The revolt of honest Democrats in
Maryland against bossism, thevery and
thuggery in the party management de.
serves the encouragement of the friends
of good government everywhere.
If there is ever a time when tho defeat
of Il party candidate is needed for the
party's good, that time is now in Mary
land. That party deserves to be beaten
which permits its affairs to be managed,
and government to be conducted in its
name by the kind of men who control
the Democratic organization in Baltimore.
The |t0ftd has printed the names and
facts and no denial of them is attempted.
The attitude of the bullies and boodlers
who run the machine is one of brazen
confidence inspired by their control of the
election machinery. What does it matter
to them that e, 900 of the best Democrats
1t the city have come out against their
ticket? What do they care that organized
labor has denounced their rascality !
With 0,O00 bogus names on the registry,
and with ample opportunity to stuff bal.
lot boxes and doctor the returns, nc
wonder they are confident.
The work of the Reform League is this
year SO systematic and thorough, and is
supported by such an array of good citi.
zens That there is some hope of the over.
throw of the ring in spite Of its unlawful
advantages. There is incltement to sucb
an effort by the taxpayers of Baltimore,
irrespective of party, in the fact that the
debt Of the city is $36, 133,2 ,2i1. The tax
rate of baltimore, according to the ad.
dress of the Independent committee, is
higher than that of any other city on
the Atlantic coast, save Jersey City
alone and this although the public
buildings and improvements are of "the
simplest and cheapest kind" This is the
natural result of ring rule. The public
interest therefore joins with the party
interest in demanding the overthrow OF
the spoilsmen and corruptionists who
have usurped control Of the Democratic
organization.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

WHILE the Cecil Democrat is in
dulging its labor of love in telling US
how economical (?) his party has been,
and to do it always takes good care
to select the highest year under Re-
publican rule, to compare it with The
lowest year under Democratic rule-he
might give us some individual instances
of Democratic official economy. For
instance-how much one commissioner
ran his salary up in one year $3.50 10.
What handsome sum a road COM
missioner managed to run gp in one
year S5,72r.54, and other especially
brilliant individual instances of the
cheese pairing economy, of which the
story now hangs SO sweetly upon the
Crookshankian lip.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

THE pretext that the President
does not know of what is going on
in Baltimore is swept away by the
declaration of so veracious an OBJ
server as General II. V. Boynton,
who declares every step in this
downward progress has been taken
in full sight of the President. II
would be impossible for an admins
tration to have more complete
knowledge of these frauds unless the
Executive and his Cabinet officers
personally committed them. From
the day that Higgins, Morris,
Thomas and Naval Officer Rasin
openly packed the Baltimore prima-
ries, down through the defiant ac-
ton of these and all other Federal
officials in Baltimore at the conven-
ton, to the present exposure OF the
scheme to carry the election by the
grossest frauds, the President has
been as we'll informed as he possibly
could be Of every feature Of the out
rage, attempted and in progress,
upon the freedom of the ballot in
Baltimore" To the same effect
testihes Col. Charles Marshall, O.
Gen. Lees staff, and others o
equally good repue.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

their personal followers. But the wei
come growth of healthy sentiment OF
personal indepcndenCc has placed the
masses of our people beyond the intiu-
ence of unworthy leaders. These same
leaders always took good care to save
the people the trouble of making NOM
nations, and named the candidates
themselves. The tax payers of the
county, those most Intimately con
Cerned in property interests, really had
very little to do i'll selecting those who
were to fill local positions of trust and
responsibility. In very many, indeed
in most instances, the men selected
were such as could be easily influenced
by, and when in office become the sub
servient instruments of their political
masters. AS rule the best men were
not nominated, simply for the reason
that the party leaders preferred men
not over-atocked with business juds
ment or common sense. Office was
not looked upon as public trust, and
to be administered for the benefit of
the people, but as legitimate party per-
quisite to be dispensed for the benefit
of party. These were the days when
the crack of the Democratic whip re-
sounded over the county, and when a
nomination good, bad, or indifferent,
meant an election. This system OF
personal dispensation of public office
has been fortunately repudiated by the
people. 1t has been attempted re-
Gently by certain Democratic leaders,
but higher non-partizan sentiment has
frowned it down. The time has passed
in Cecil county when nomination
means an election. Campaigns for
local offices now are largely waged
upon the personal qualification of can
didates. The demand of the people
is for competent men as public SER
wants. Better men in office, reform IN
the methods of. taxation, economy in
state and county affairs, andmore care
full legislation, are the demands OF our
best voters everywhere. Tne Republi-
cans of Cecil county have given heed
to this popular demand in the class of
men they have placed before the peo-
pie of this county, and we believe their
selections will be ratified at the polls on
the eighth of November.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22
MIR. HAUGuMAN iEi;lIGEED.

Mr.. Cowen Is carrying CONSERVATION
into the ranks of the Baltimore repea-
tiers and ballotboX suffers. Able.
brave, and defiant the shrewdest of the
German leaders find, that they have in
him more than a foreman worthy of
their steel. He has just arraigned Mr..
Baughman, TIE Democratic candidate
for comptroller, before the bar of pub
lie opinion, upon distinct charges, spe-
officially named, and which Mr.. Eaugh-
man cannot ignore.
81 charge specifically says Mr.. Cow
an, that Baughman, with his own
hands, has been guilty of election frandS
| am charging him with a penitentiary
offence, and | know it-a horrible, dam
nable conspiracy to elect himself to office
in Frederick county. We had here Chas.
Keys and John Mahon These registers
of voters iii this city who gave certiti-
Gates of transfers of voters III this city to
be put on the books in Frederick county. .
This was done in 1871. More than 100
false certificates were gwen by the regis
terS in this city, and Baughman with his
own hands took the fraudulent certill
Gates and gave them to the registers of
Frederick county, and asked them to be
put OF the books there. He went to
Joseph Brown, register of jackson dis
| trict, and gave them to him. Brown exam
ined these certificates, and found that not
one man of them lived in the jackson
district. | hold here one photographed
| copy OF these certificates | have others
| and will have more tomorrow. It is
| dated October |, 1871 1t certihes that
it was gwen to Henry James, and is
signed by Charles Keys, register in Bal
| timore, and is addressed to b. Cauhflower
| hechanicstown district. | want Mr..
| Baughman to sue me if he dare for this
statement. I'll confess the truth. the
slander, in court and FL justify it by
| bringing the witnesses from Frederick
| county. 1t is well known there. 1t is
known to the other registers besides
| Brown, and when an examination was
male in 1878 the facts were smothered
The honest registers of that county know
that Victor Baughman handed them
these certificates. 1t is slander if untrue.
This is not the only time it has been
charged against him. 1t has appeared
in the Frederick IHtoH, ana he has not
had the courage and manhood to face it. :"
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

We appeal to every man in Cecil
county irrespective of party, to vote
against the proposed constitutional
convention. The demand for it on the
part of the Democratic ring politicians
Is absolutely without just foundation. A
careful calculation has shown that the
cost of the convention will be not less
than 5000, 900. More than that, it has
been clearly demonstrated, that there
is not a single proper object to be
gained by constitutional convention,
that cannot be as we'll secured at a
comparatively triaing cost, by means OF
amendments to the present constitution.
Isn't it hard enough for our people to
pay the taxes now imposed upon them
Do the farmers and property owners
of Cecil county want an additional
assessment to meet the debt of $780,
600, which will be incurred IN the
making of a new constitution Citizens
of Cecil county vote it down.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

The present regime in Cecil county
has created debt of $4,000, and a
heavy increase of taxes. The simple
and single issue presented to-day to
the voters of the county, is whether
that regime shall be continued, or a
more economical and prudent manage
ment substituted.
If the voters prefer the former con-
dition of affairs, let them vote for
Messrs. Jefferson, Benjamin and Keen.
If they prefer a change from that
condition to prudence and economy
let them cast their ballots for Mcssrs.
Bond, Williams and Crothers.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22
"THAr infallible Commissioner s

"THAT infallible Commissioner
Ticket." - Cecil Democrat.
Not at all sir, no such nonsensical
claim was ever set up by the wsrmest
supporters of Messrs. Bond, Williams
and Crothers. Tney were nominated
by the Republicans of this county upon
their records as sensible, and honest
business men, and who when elected
will carry into this important office the
personal qualification necessary for the
successful transaction of its business.
And this, in the present condition of
public sentiment in Cecil county, is a
very much higher recommendation than
any partizan clam they can make upon
the voters of the county. The personal
records of those offered for places of
public trust, is with very large pro
portion of voters in both parties, more
important matter of consideration, than
mere ''regularity' of nomination.
Neither party today in Cecil county is
SO strongly entrenched in the affections
of the people, as to risk the nomination
of confessedly unsuitable nominations.
A candidate must possess something
more to recommend him to popular
favor, than the fact that his name ap-
pears upon the ticket of either party.
There was time in the not far distant
past, when party feeling and party pre-
judiCe were more active principles than
now, and to which candidate could
more successfully appeal, than to a
popular recognition of personal fitness
for the position for which he may have
been nominated. The obligation to
support candidate because he was
the nominee of "our party" was more
general. There was a binder and
more unreasoning devotion to the mere
name of party, more party idolatry, and
tar less individual independence than
now. We owe it to the better educa-
ton and increasing intelligence of our
people, that the old condition Of poll
tics in our state and county, has in a
large measure been changed of late.
The time was, when few men in Cecil
county, prominent by reason of wealth
and family influence, lead and con-
troIed the masses of their fellow men
in all political matters. They exercised
boss-ship as overbearing and despotic,
albeit not SO corrupt, as Mr.. German
and his leutcnants now exercise over
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

Mr.. ToHN V. l.. FINDLAy has just
written letter to the Baltimore
american in which he makes the
following pointed illustration of the
evils of fraudulent elections:
''One of the consequences of fraud is
to confound the false with the true, so
that the people, with reference to an
election here, are left very much in the
same kind of doubt and uncertainty as
the unfortunate father who was told by
his wife on her deathbed that one of their
children was not bis, ara then died be
fore she could tell him which one it was,
leaving him in doubt as to the whole
brood. We can't affirm here whether a
man will be elected or not, nor in COM
mon conversation do We attempt it. All
we do is to Say So and so will be returned
or not returned, as the case may be. The
sporting fraternity do not frame their
bets on the theory Of an election; they
content themselves with betting that
this Individual or that will be the next
governor or mayor What fair minded
man in this city outside of tie class who
have an immediate interest i'll politics
will affirm that the elections here have
been conducted with such reasonable de-
gree of fairness as even to approximate a
correct resulto'
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

WILL the leaders of the Young
Democracy" tell US where they stand
on the Constitutional Convention ques-
ton?
Is DIR. Mackall in favor of saddling
US with an additional burden of $780,
900?
Does Mr.. Caldwell favor the new
rad of the Ring on the Treasury OF
the State?
Is Mr.. Moore in sympathy with the
latest scheme of the Ring Democracy
to increase the taxes of the taxpayers
of Cecil2
Let us hear from you gentlemen.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

All the latest Books on the
New Book Table.
When you read of a new
Book you would like a hint as
to its goodness or badness, and
you want it while the Book is
new. You would welcome a
word from a friend whose
judgment you could be fairly
sure of. Book News is Just
that friend. 1t picks new Books
to pieces and takes you into
confidence about them without
prejudice or spite. You may
save the subscription price on
a single Book. October num-
Der (portrait of DIR. S. Weir
Mitchell) now on sale. 5 cents,
50 cents a year.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets
and City-hall square.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

GENERAL, we cannot nominate
you. IIs had to count r0H IN ft1ce.'
"Cauf you do it agan9" asked
Latrobe. Such, Mr.. Cowen declares
was the admission made to him, O.
the political villiany by Mr.. Latrobe
What a commentary upon the Cor
man methods practiced IN that city.
Is it any wonder that self-respecting
Democrats refuse to countenance
such rascality.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

The Republican party by the plat
form adopted at its late State conven-
ton stands pledged against new con-
stitution. 1t is opposedto the creation
OF new debt of $500, 900, and the
consequent increase OF taxes. Every
candidate on the Republican ticket,
State and county, endorses that plat
form, and will vote against the scheme
of the Ring Democracy. All Of them
are opposed to increasing the burdens
with which the people are already SO
heavily freighted. Will the candidates
on the Democratic county ticket say
as much2
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

We put the stutfs for a neat
costume together and sell them
in a lump. Easier for you than
to pick them out separately
better, perhaps-no mistakes
in color combination; often
cheaper.
ut first only hish-cost goods
were SO treated; now the little
cost stutts are prepared for
you with as much care as any.
In each lot plain and fancy
material enough tor a liberal
dress. Good materials, Fall
weight, new and seasonable
colors. Some prices:
For $500. 50 in. all-wool ma
tcrial, 9 colorings; suited for
knock about, all around
dress. Half the year-ago
price.
For 81. s. in. Serge, with
enough novelty velvet for
trimming. IS colorings, in
the latest Fall shades. A
combination that makes a
stylish, handsome, and serv-
iceable costume.
For S., So, s., and S.. Robes
of higher grade goods; all
wool French fabrics and high
class novelties for trimming.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

A sOMBRE LOOKING handbill an
nounces another Democratic meeting
on the Court House yard OH this Sat
urday evening. The poster concludes
with shrek in this language. Tile
desperate Efforts Of tile Republican
party, backed BY corporate influence
10 carry MayIand, &C., &c.
Now this is particularly happy
shrek in view of the fact that Mr..
Stephen Caldwell whom the Demo
cratic managers are doing their best to
elect to our Legislature, is the salaried
business representative and President
agent OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, generally supposed to be
quite an influential and aggressive cor
DOratlOn
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

WHEN Mr.. Crothers behind the
scenes and out of view of the audience
at the Democratic meeting IN Elkton
last week, wildly gesticulated, and fran
tcally waved his hat, was it because he
approved the sentiment of the speaker
concerning the Constitution" or did
he mean to answer the question, "Who
wants it"-by saying mot l."
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

BETTER men in Office, reform in
methods of taxation, economy in
county and state affairs, and more care
full legislation are the demands of the
taxpaying voters of Cecil county. Let
the Cecil county representatives of a
corrupt Baltimore ring of State man
ayers make note of it.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

AN expenditure of three hundred
thousand dollars and no advantage to
the people-that is the size of the pro-
posed new constitutional convention.
Fat berths for Ringsters, extravagant
outlay OF public money, the overthrow
of the Baltimore Judiciary, safety for
ballot-box suffers, the theft Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal-these
are the plums IN the Democratic ring
pudding.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

A LIE will travel league, while truth
is pulling on his boots, says the adage
But it was not verified when George w
Crookshanks asserted that the Repub-
lican candidates for County Commis
sioners had promised Henry r. Tor
bert their clerkship. That lie was SC
heavily freighted with malice, that ii
stuck at the start in its own mud.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

WHILE the Cecil Democrat is
felicitating itself and its partizan
readers, by calling attention to the
fact, that Cecil county under Demo
cratic management has actually sue
ceeded in getting part OF new
Court House, and whole small
Mad House built for S22, ,Io3. oS,
without jobbery, by securing several
good business Republicans on the
commission which built them, why
don't it 90 back little further, and
tell us how many jobs were covered
up when the new Jail was built? He
might find time to tell us what price
an excellent Democrat charged the
county for the SCAMP lot on which
it stands, besides a number of other
little financial scandals which a tor-
bearing public has perhaps forgiven
but not forgotten.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

Cotton Comfortables. Nc
shoddy in the hlling-every
scrap of it thoroughly cleaned
cotton. Great variety of pat
terms. Double bed size.
The one for least, SI.25.
Little better cover, SI.5o.
Sateen both sides, Sis.
Others of Sateen, $3.50, S.,
and 81, according to quality OF
the stuff.
"Tuck-in' Comforta bles
, q yards square. The good
old-fashioned size. Covered
with imported Turkey-red
chintz, medallion centre, orna-
mental border, hand-quiltcd,
S5.75.
The Cecil Whig., 1887-10-22

A LEADING Philadelphia daily journal
very properly styles the defiant prosti-
tuition of the Civil Service by Federal
officials IN Baltimore to maintain the
supremacy of the German ring in this
State, as the greatest political scandal
of this decade"